Rock
Some records are snapshots, but Last Danger of Frost is more like a long gaze into a mirror.
Read MoreJason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).
Read MoreAfter more than four decades, Paul Collins is still keeping The Beat
Read MoreLettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..
Read MoreI trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.
Read More“I hope that these new venues still want to book the occasional seasoned musician, because audiences of all ages still love rock and roll.”
Read MoreBefore Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-’60s music inamorata.
Read MoreThe magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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